上海高三英语高考阅读理解新题型9

2021年1月22日发(作者：强巴)
2010
年上海高三英语高考阅读理解新题型
9
古美高中

Section
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Directions:

Read
the
following
passage
and
complete
the
sentences
or
answer
the
questions
according to the information given in the passage you have just read.


I was only ten, but Mom couldn’t put off the Talk any longer. “I think,” she began, “that you
should start investing some of that money you have saved.”

Does a ten-year-old child really need to know the financial facts of life? As immigrants with
little money, my parents were convinced that the time to teach children about investment building
was as early as possible. They wanted my brother and me to get a head start on that long road to
financial stability.
Two years earlier my parents had helped me open my first bank account, and now my mother
was introducing me to mutual funds. An enthusiastic pupil, I was soon contributing income from my
paper route towards my investments.
Then, later, as a high-school student with university on the horizon, I began to wonder how I
could possibly afford the $$2,200-a-year tuition. I had decided to major in sciences, with the aim of
going on to medical school. In other words, there were a lot of years of tuition ahead of me.
Clearly,
it
was
time
to
step up
my
investing
planning.
I
read
investment
magazines
carefully
and thoroughly for money-making advice. My comfort level grew, as did my investment. At the end
of high school, I was able to pay for my university tuition. In fact, the proceeds of that investment
supported me much of the way through medical school.
Since Mom’s first
chat nearly two decades ago, I have come a long way as an investor. Above
all, I have seen firsthand how smart investing can help you reach important goals in life. It’s partly
thanks to the good financial habits I picked up as a child that I’m enjoying a
medical residency on
Edmonton today---- thanks, in other words, to my money-wise Mom and Dad.

1.

When

the writer’s parents opened his first bank account, the writer __________ years old
？

2.

The time when the writer could afford his university tuition was _______________________.
3.

Why did the writer’s mother encourage the writer to learn to invest?


4.

What did the writer learn from the investment?


Keys:
1.

was 8.
2.

at the end of high school
3.

Because the writer’s parents were immigrants with little money.

4.

It can help you reach important goals in life.

Section
Ｄ

Directions:

Read
the
following
passage
and
complete
the
sentences
or
answer
the
questions
according to the information given in the passage you have just read.



Thirty-two
people
watched
Kitty
Brown
being
killed
beneath
their
windows.
She
was
their
neighbor. Yet none of them helped her. Not one even called the police. Was this inhuman cruelty?
Was it lack of feeling about one’s fellow men?

“ Not so.” Say scientists John Darley and Bibb Fatane. These men went beyond the headlines to
prove the reasons why
people didn’t act. They found that a person has to go through two steps before
he can help. First he has to notice that there is an emergency.
Suppose you see a middle-aged man fall down to the sidewalk. Is he having a heart attack? Or
is he about to sleep off a drunk.
Is the smoke coming into the room from a leak in the air conditioning? Is it “Steam pipes”? or
is it really smoke from a fire? It’s not always easy to tell if you are faced with a real emergency.

Second
,
and
more
important,
the
person
faced
with
an
emergency
must
feel
personally
responsible. He must feel that he must help or the person won’t get the help he needs.

The researchers found a lot depends on how many people are around. They had college students
in to be “tested”. Some came alone.
Some came in large groups. The receptionist started them off on
the
“test”.
Then
she
went
into
the
next
room.
A
curtain
divided
the
“testing
room”
and
the
room
which she wanted. Soon the students heard the scream, the noise of file cabinets falling and a cry for
help. All of this had been pre- recorded and on a tape-recorder.
Eight of ten of the students taking the test alone acted to help. Of the students in pairs, only two
out ten helped. Of the students in groups, none helped.

1. When the students in the
“test” heard the “scream” or “the “cry for help”. The ones who most
often acted were those ____________________________________________ _____________.
2. What are the two steps before he can help?


3. In what circumstances didn’t the “tested” students act
to help?


4. The main purpose of this passage proves the reasons __________________________________


when they saw or heard someone facing danger.



参考答案：

1.

taking the test alone (acted to help)
2.

First he has to notice that there is an emergency. Second, and more important, the person faced
with an emergency must feel personally responsible.
3.

Of the students in groups, none helped.
4.

why people didn’t act


Section
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Directions:

Read
the
following
passage
and
complete
the
sentences
or
answer
the
questions
according to the information given in the passage you have just read.




Being able to multitask
—
doing several things at the same time
—
is considered a welcome skill
by most people. But if we consider the situation of the young people aged from eight to eighteen, we
should think again.
What we often see nowadays is that young people juggle an ever larger number of electronic